Thursday, October 1, 2009

The weather has suddenly changed to very cool and damp. The leaves have not yet turned, but it feels as if fall is here. The temperature drop has the kids clamoring for hot chocolate. So, this week we made the first hot chocolate of the season.

We make two versions of hot chocolate in this house. If we have an abundance of milk on hand we will make the real stuff on the stove top using the following recipe quadrupled:

Often there isn't an abundance of milk, and it is convenient to have a mix on hand to whip up a few cups for the kids quickly on a chilly day. For this reason we also make our own hot chocolate mix. The recipe we use is adapted from the one found at the Hillbilly Housewife site.

Thanks for posting this Stephanie! I made the one with pudding last year and my son and daughter in law were disappointed when they had to go back to store bought. I told them I would try to find the recipe and make it again. They will be happy, happy!

I just made the homemade hot cocoa...not impressed. I would suggest doubling the cocoa and sugar and reducing the water to 1/2 cup. I definitly had to "doctor" it up once it was done, being that it was very thin and watery tasting with not much chocolate flavor. my boyfriend, who hates sweet things, even stated it was not very good and he was used to "thicker, richer, and sweeter" hot chocolate.

Just tried this. I am with poster above. Good base reciepe but I doubled the cocoa & sugar. Halved the h20. Plus I threw in a handful of milk choclate morsels. Yummm. I am firmly in the sweet and rich hot choclate camp.

I ran out of our store bought HC mix so I thought I would look for a recipe to make from scratch. I wasnt paying attention to the measurements and put in 2 TBSP of cocoa powder, and 2 TSP of sugar. When I relized this I justy adding the remaining sugar to equal 2 TBSP. Left the rest as is. When it was done I tasted it and found it to be still a bit bitter and not creamy enough for my liking, so I added half a TBSP of sugar and three spoonfuls of powdered creamer (not an actual measuing spoon, but a small spoon) When it was done I thought it was pretty good. I will make this again, the little tweaking is no big deal as everyones taste is different. Thanks for the recipe! I look forward to experimenting with different flavours added to the recipe.

I tried the Homemade Cocoa as written and it didn't have enough flavor, it was too weak. I think that 2 TBSP each of cocoa powder and sugar would be better. I just kept adding a little of both until I thought it tasted ok.